It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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